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Aunt Clara is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Anthony Kimmins with Margaret Rutherford
Aunt Clara (1954)
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Add to a movie listAunt Clara is a 1954 British comedy film starring Margaret Rutherford as a woman who inherits a number of shady businesses from a relative. Ronald Shiner, A. E. Matthews, and Fay Compton are also featured. The film was based on the novel of the same name by author Noel Streatfeild, and directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films.
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Clara Hilton (Margaret Rutherford), is a puritanical old lady whose eccentric uncle dies and leaves her five racing greyhounds, a broken-down pub, and a successful brothel. When confronted with her property, Clara is outraged, but shrewdly finds a way to convert the tainted money to good use for a children’s holiday fund. Clara also keeps Simon’s outspoken valet Henry Martin (Ronald Shiner) on to assist her.Actors
Margaret Rutherford
(Clara Hilton)
Ronald Shiner
(Henry Martin)
A. E. Matthews
(Simon Hilton)
Fay Compton
(Gladys Smith)
Nigel Stock
(Charles Willis)
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